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Spanish police shoot dead suspected Barcelona attacker

Spanish police shoot dead suspected Barcelona attacker | 21 Aug 2017 | Spanish police on Monday shot dead a man they suspect was the Islamist militant who drove a van into a Barcelona crowd last week, killing 13 people. Ending a five-day manhunt, police tracked 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub to a rural area near Barcelona. They said they shot him after he held up what appeared to be an explosives belt. Police gave few details of the incident in Subirats, saying they had called in a bomb squad to approach the man's body after gunning him down.